Friend Is Not a Verb by Daniel Ehrenhaft

Author:Daniel Ehrenhaft
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: David_James Mobilism.org
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2010-04-03T05:00:00+00:00

There was a pause. “Hen, your mother and I are worried about you.”

I laughed. “Well if it helps, I am, too.”

“Are you planning on walking dogs for the rest of your life?” he asked.

“Didn’t we already have a conversation like this? I feel like we did.”

He exhaled deeply. “Let me just ask you a simple question. Would this job provide you with any health coverage in case, God forbid, I lost my insurance?”

Hmm. I didn’t answer. I figured that if I were bitten by one of the dogs, Mrs. Abrahmson would take me to the hospital. She sounded like a nice woman.

“And how are you paid, exactly? Does your employer take taxes out?”

“It’s not a career, Dad,” I said. “It’s a job.”

“It’s neither,” he said. “But regardless of your grandiloquence, cash is still taxable income. You have to declare it. Otherwise, you’ll have to pay a fine.”

Grandiloquence? I was beginning to regret subscribing to my family’s insanity. My own father was threatening me with the IRS. I hadn’t even started yet.

“Things are more complicated than they seem,” he added cryptically. “You’re not a kid anymore.”

“I’m not? Since when?”

“You’re sixteen years old,” he stated. “You had a bar mitzvah. You’re an adult.”

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